Richie joined Osprey in 2012, immediately following a seven year tenure at the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). He has over 34 years’ aviation experience at every level from operational aircrew, operational airspace manager, national policy maker and regulator with the CAA and international Technical Advisor to the Single European Skies Air Traffic Management (ATM) Research (SESAR) Programme.
He has an aeronautical engineering degree, which has been the foundation of his technical, as well as operational credibility, on some of the issues facing civil and military Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs).
More recently, Richie has utilised his operational and regulatory experience to assist airports and developers in airspace design and delivery of new procedures.